Sauna Benefits, Free Standing Steam Room Costs Sampo Hot Rock Heater

So here's our sauna. It's a freestanding sauna I built with a, see the control here. I built it with plywood. We had another sauna, that was a part of a room, but what happens with those types of saunas is they have mould problems.

So I built this straight out of plywood. It's got some LED lighting in here, and we've got these railings around. Here's our Sampo sauna heater, Sampo, it's got hot rocks in there, and we spray it with our water bottle, and Vanessa likes to put ice on it. Here's a little sensor for the heat, so it can tell what the total is.

We have a seat in here, And the seats and the back walls are always covered with clean towels, so that the sweat is removable, and doesn't stick into the wood. So, anything you'd like to say Vanessa? No, I think you did pretty well. We use Eucalyptus oil in our sauna. Right.

And we have, the heater is actually a wet heater, Yeah. So, it's a steam sauna. It's not a dry sauna. Right.

Which is wonderful. And you can use any oil you want to use. You can use peppermint, eucalyptus, lavender, you know, whatever. Or even herbal teas.

Yeah. That you want to use for health purposes. Mm hm. And we also put ice on the sauna rocks, Yeah.

We actually have beautiful crystals in there as well. We have amethyst, rose quartz crystals, and we believe in the energy of the crystals. So. Yeah, see the rose crystals? Yeah, we.

And after the sauna, we have an ice cold shower. Yeah. To get the circulation going. Now, in the bottom of this wet sauna heater, we've got a baking pan in there, to catch any dribbles of water.

Yeah. So that doesn't create mould or anything. We try to keep it as sanitary as possible. Yeah.

Well, that's very sanitary. And also on the feet, we have towels, because, you know, following the concept of the European saunas, you are not even allowed to put your big toe on the wood. You know, somebody will yell at you. And say, put a towel under you, right.

Yeah. Right. And so that's quite important. So this is not insulated at all.

It, most of the heat comes from the steam, and I built a nice door here, We've have a towel over there that acts like a gasket so the hot air doesn't come out. It's right in, it's totally freestanding. It's on a little, sort of, a skid system there. So that it doesn't, it's off the ground, doesn't create any problems with the floor.

It's all made of plywood. Four feet wide, or pretty much four, three feet wide here, I guess. We have a small area to fit it in here. When you have the, it's a four thousand watt heater, so it's got a 220 line coming in, and the sauna control serves as the GFI.

If you don't have that control, you need a very expensive GFI breaker. As it is, this serves as that breaker. It shuts off. Yeah, it shuts off automatically, timer, and you can tell how hot it is in there.

We usually go in when it's about 50? 45. 45 Or 50, so we're ready to go, on this one. Saunas, very healthy thing to do. I have asthma, so it's very important to get the eucalyptus treatments, and the steam.

Very good. Closed Captioning by Kris Brandhagen. Brandhagen@gmail.Com.